Posthumous Harm — Scriptorium Liberum

Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics

✍ James Stacey Taylor 📂 Library 📅 2012 🏛 Routledge 🌐 English

Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics offers a highly distinctive and original approach to the metaphysics of death and applies this approach to contemporary debates in bioethics that address end-of-life and post-mortem issues. Taylor defends the controversial Epicurean view that death is not a harm

Posthumous Life: Theorizing Beyond the P

📁 Posthumous Life: Theorizing Beyond the Posthuman

✍ Jami Weinstein, Claire Colebrook 📂 Library 📅 2017 🏛 Columbia University Press 🌐 English

Posthumous Life launches critical life studies: a mode of inquiry that neither endorses nor dismisses a wave of recent "turns" toward life, matter, vitality, inhumanity, animality, and the real. Questioning the nature and limits of life in the natural sciences, the essays in this volume exami

Posthumous Life: Theorizing Beyond the P

📁 Posthumous Life: Theorizing Beyond the Posthuman

✍ Jami Weinstein (editor); Claire Colebrook (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2017 🏛 Columbia University Press 🌐 English

Posthumous Life launches critical life studies: a mode of inquiry that neither endorses nor dismisses a wave of recent "turns" toward life, matter, vitality, inhumanity, animality, and the real. Questioning the nature and limits of life in the natural sciences, the essays in this volume ex

Posthumous Life: Theorizing Beyond the P

📁 Posthumous Life: Theorizing Beyond the Posthuman

✍ Jami Weinstein; Claire Colebrook 📂 Library 📅 2017 🏛 Columbia University Press 🌐 English

Posthumous Life launches critical life studies: a mode of inquiry that neither endorses nor dismisses a wave of recent "turns" toward life, matter, vitality, inhumanity, animality, and the real. Questioning the nature and limits of life in the natural sciences, the essays in this volume examine the

Dead Wrong: The Ethics of Posthumous Har

📁 Dead Wrong: The Ethics of Posthumous Harm

✍ David Boonin 📂 Library 📅 2019 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

It is possible for an act to wrongfully harm a person, even if the act takes place after the person is dead. David Boonin defends this view in Dead Wrong and explains the puzzle of posthumous harm. In doing so, he makes three central claims. First, that it is possible

The Modernist Corpse: Posthumanism and t

📁 The Modernist Corpse: Posthumanism and the Posthumous

✍ Edwards, Erin E 📂 Library 📅 2018 🏛 University of Minnesota Press 🌐 English

An unconventional take on the corpse challenges traditional conceptions of who-and what-counts as human, while offering bold insights into the modernist project Too often regarded as the macabre endpoint of life, the corpse is rarely discussed and largely kept out of the public eye. In The Modernist